Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Bulgaria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Interesting Facts
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
Similar To
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Macedonian language
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3030
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2536
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
Молим (Molim)
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
Serbia
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Torlakian
Pirdop
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
358
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million7.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.21 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.70 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million9.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
Balgarski
French Name
serbe
bulgare
German Name
Serbisch
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Serbs
Bulgarian people
Origin
11th Century
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
4488
1
120
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Signed Forms
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sr
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
srp
bul
ISO 639 2/B
srp
bul
ISO 639 3
srp
bul
ISO 639 6
srp
buls
Glottocode
serb1264
bulg1262
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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-